February 14th, 2002 issue #0102

Cultural preview

• Cool Curreri conquers all

  Paul Curreri gives you the wonderful options of reading his stand-alone worthy words, or listening to unassumingly complex playing, or, if you’ve got the time and desire...

• Humorous hubris

  Hang on to your seats. Here come the Value America guys again. As if they hadn’t rocked this town enough, they’ve spent the last 18 months telling their side of the st...

• Penetrating questions

    Here are the grim statistics: Somewhere in America a woman is battered, usually by her intimate partner, every 15 seconds; a rape is committed every 21 hours on each...

• Saving green acres

• Slavery's effects live on

  As of the 1860 census, the last before the American Civil War, 2.3 million slaves lived in the Lower Southern states—nearly 50 percent of the entire Lower Southern popul...

• Subtle yet striking

  Visitors to Dorothy Siu-Ling Chan’s Playful Nature Series may not be fully prepared for what they find. Chan practices painting in the Lingnan style, which weds tradition...

• Visual splendor

    Although a sign on the door says “Please come in,” visitors approaching the Back Gallery exhibit space at the Virginia Discovery Museum may wonder if they’ve w...